Recent content by Ocsid

I like a record of certain "exploratory" type rides I make, where did I actually go. But then I like maps and I like exploring, plus I like and am comfortable with technology. In no way does a tracker in your pocket, panier or rucksack need to rob you of any of the enjoyment of being out, you...

Use a very dated Garmin Etrex Vista HCx [ like LINK ], from which I can download the track to my PC, here I still use "Memory Maps". The Etrex I have uploaded with OpenStreet Maps, so have a very detailed display of the route with my progress.

Because "rated" here is itself not something definitive, its an arbitrary value accredited by whoever sticks the label on the unit. Its not IMO realistic in that 250 Watts is placed too low for much other than flat terrain. In the diesel world, "we" rated against time and temperature stability...

IMO the starting point, if seriously interested in properly defining "power" legality, is to rewrite that clause to something both realistic and legally solidly definitive. But that is probably so much an anathema to the legal community, the police will remain hamstrung. In respect to finding...

I take "what's new" to refer to posts, not threads.

Time to read LINK, where it clearly states "maximum continuous rated power of the electric motor must not exceed 250 Watts." Wholly different thing to "maximum power", "top power". "Maximum continuous rated power " is what a motor maker arbitrarily deems is a rating it can deliver a power of...

I would suspect they seize every ebike they put on their dynamometer, working on that basis. They would see peak power, and have no way of knowing what the maker has determined as "continuous" power, other than read the label, which can be done without any test kit.

I agree, the use of the term "continuous" makes any legal action on power a complete gift for a defence barrister. Probably the intention from the moment it was penned?

The legality is based on the nebulous term "Continuous rated power", which is not the maximum power, this can and will be higher, sometimes significantly. It is also simply what the maker decides to rate it at, not a technically defined characteristic, so "very" open ended. So, even legal bikes...

The way "power" impacts on hill climbing is the speed you get up them, the work in climbing is achieved by the "torque" developed at the rear wheel. It does typically follow that the more power available tends to also come with higher torque, but as said in respect to climbing it is torque that...

We don't store cans of petrol within the habitated part of our homes, unless we have some cognative issue, nor do we store large quanties of mains gas in our homes, in ways directly comparible with storing the quantity of energy our ebikes or scooter batteries do. Nor is much else with that...

I would fit a triangular gusset on each external side, much like but larger than the existing pannier bottom clip ones. These I would cut from aluminium sheet (like this example) fixing them with pop rivets. I would exploit the full 120mm width of the example sheet, the larger basically here the...

A less "generous" take on this might be make it wooly to keep the legal industry, both defending and prosecuting, nice and bouyant? IMO the legislation is very open ended, serving no real controlling purpose, as if that was the creator's intention/ brief.

Hardly a glowing defence against the assertion that batteries present safety issues? I am not overly convinced if he had not attempted to get it out of a building that requires a lift, there would not have been some serious implication, just leaving in his flat

In fairness that's not historically true. Over my lifetime [over 80 years] I have seen a lot of development in reducing car deaths, both in technical advancements and in statutory actions. including mandating the inclusion of some of the former. I do feel there is going to be some similar...